Protect contents of a CDRom ?

A

Andy100

Is there any software out there which will protect a CDRom from people
seeing its contents (other than people who know the password). I want to
archive invoices, bank statements etc from more than 12 months ago onto a
CDR. I scan in receipts etc, so they are all in .jpg format. I have recently
noticed that they are taking up a lot of room on my hard drive and was
looking to put them onto CD for archival purposes, but i want them to be
secure.

I tried TrueCrypt, which works fine for files archived on the Hard Drive,
however, it is VERY slow with files on CDR.

All i simply want is for when the CDR is placed in the CD drive, the
computer prompts me for a password. If the password is entered correctly,
then the contents of the CDR will show up. Sounds easy, but i doubt such
software exists ??


Cheers
Andrew
 
D

Doc

Is there any software out there which will protect a CDRom from people
seeing its contents (other than people who know the password). I want
to archive invoices, bank statements etc from more than 12 months ago
onto a CDR. I scan in receipts etc, so they are all in .jpg format. I
have recently noticed that they are taking up a lot of room on my hard
drive and was looking to put them onto CD for archival purposes, but i
want them to be secure.

I tried TrueCrypt, which works fine for files archived on the Hard
Drive, however, it is VERY slow with files on CDR.

All i simply want is for when the CDR is placed in the CD drive, the
computer prompts me for a password. If the password is entered
correctly, then the contents of the CDR will show up. Sounds easy, but
i doubt such software exists ??


Cheers
Andrew
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a) Save into a password protected zip file ?
or
b) Lock the cd away somewhere safe ?
 
S

Sparky

Doc said:
a) Save into a password protected zip file ?
or
b) Lock the cd away somewhere safe ?
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Andrew;

Take a look at http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/. It's a well-considered
open-source file encrypter that integrates with Windoze's file explorer.
Easy to set up, easy to run.

Please take note: Since you're archiving, make sure the cdrs you're are
using are archival quality (viz http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7-5).

One last thing: After you've implemented whatever method, please
consider reporting back your impressions/results.

hth,
-Sparky
 
A

Andy100

I do actually use AxCrypt, but find it rather slow with a lot of files, or
big files. It takes about 20 minutes to encrypt a CD's worth of data (not
that the data is that big, but most of the scans are big .bmp files). On the
other hand i had not even thought about password zipping them. I tried this
and it's about 5 times faster !. However, is zipping them as secure ???? (i
use winrar) ??

Cheers
Andrew
 
K

Kittie Spit

Me personally, I much prefer RAR format for archiving with password
proterction over ZIP, specifically, WinRar over WinZip. WinRAR seems to
me to be a bit more forgiving if your archives somehow become
corrupted, recovery seems to be easier as well. That's just my personal
experience. Also, depending on the nature of the files to
compress/password-protect, you may find that WinRar gives you a better
compression ratio [smaller archived file size] than WinZip.
 
D

Duddits

Is there any software out there which will protect a CDRom from people
seeing its contents (other than people who know the password). I want to
archive invoices, bank statements etc from more than 12 months ago onto a
CDR. I scan in receipts etc, so they are all in .jpg format. I have recently
noticed that they are taking up a lot of room on my hard drive and was
looking to put them onto CD for archival purposes, but i want them to be
secure.

I tried TrueCrypt, which works fine for files archived on the Hard Drive,
however, it is VERY slow with files on CDR.

All i simply want is for when the CDR is placed in the CD drive, the
computer prompts me for a password. If the password is entered correctly,
then the contents of the CDR will show up. Sounds easy, but i doubt such
software exists ??


Cheers
Andrew
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BCArchive
http://www.jetico.com/bcarchive.htm
Handles large filels/folders with ease. *Very* secure. Very good
compression.

regards

Dud
 
K

Klaatu

Me personally, I much prefer RAR format for archiving with password
proterction over ZIP, specifically, WinRar over WinZip. WinRAR seems to
me to be a bit more forgiving if your archives somehow become
corrupted, recovery seems to be easier as well. That's just my personal
experience. Also, depending on the nature of the files to
compress/password-protect, you may find that WinRar gives you a better
compression ratio [smaller archived file size] than WinZip.
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Hmmm...neither WinRAR or WinZip are freeware last I looked...
 
2

#2 Pencil

I do actually use AxCrypt, but find it rather slow with a lot of files, or
big files. It takes about 20 minutes to encrypt a CD's worth of data (not
that the data is that big, but most of the scans are big .bmp files). On the
other hand i had not even thought about password zipping them. I tried this
and it's about 5 times faster !. However, is zipping them as secure ???? (i
use winrar) ??

Cheers
Andrew
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You might want to give Alzip a looksee too.

http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=47

Very fast archiving and quite secure . . . and FREE.

Cute icons too, which may or may not be a plus.
 
A

Andy100

Also, BCArchive is rubbish !! - just tried it, it looked great, put some
files in as a test, blowfish 448, opened the encrypted file to view them,
great !! - burned it to CDR and won't work. Tried another CDR, still the
same. File sizes of the CDR and the original one burnt from the hard drive
are the same size. It seems when you burn to CDR it just burns a 645mb (or
whatever size) "shell" with no files in it !!!!

Will look for something that works, maybe !!


Andy
 
D

Duddits

Easy mistake, looking at their webpage. No need to be nasty !

Andy
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Very sorry about that. Just rubbed me the wrong way at the wrong time.
Please accept my sincere apology.

Dud
 
D

Duddits

Also, BCArchive is rubbish !! - just tried it, it looked great, put some
files in as a test, blowfish 448, opened the encrypted file to view them,
great !! - burned it to CDR and won't work. Tried another CDR, still the
same. File sizes of the CDR and the original one burnt from the hard drive
are the same size. It seems when you burn to CDR it just burns a 645mb (or
whatever size) "shell" with no files in it !!!!

Will look for something that works, maybe !!


Andy
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I haven't had that problem. I've burnt a few disks with some BCArchived
private info that worked perfectly.

regards

Dud
 
P

pascaldamian2

Alternatively you can use Linux :) BestCrypt is "free" (as in free to
download and use [non-commercially]) on Linux. Have been using it for a
couple of years to create various filesystems (ext2, ext3, vfat,
reiserfs3, etc) without any problems. I'm using BC for encrypting my
swap file too. It's also very stable and quite fast (well, if you use
Blowfish and have a fast CPU :) ).

Also have burnt lots of BestCrypt volumes on CDs and DVDs (using
ISO9660, 700MB and 2GB .jbc files). As far as my experience shows, it's
not "VERY" slow when mounted directly off the CD/DVD.

Regards,
Pascal Damian

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